I've been going to Mock's Crest productions since its second year, although I've missed maybe a third of them. This one is very solid, and well deserves the extra shows as well as a rumored trip to Willamette U and revival later in the year. But transcendant, not quite. Followspot is right about the division between acting and clarity among most of the leads, though I thought the Captain did a good job with both aspects. The redoubtable John Vergin seemed a bit squelched and wasted as Dick Deadeye (a surprise), and I imagine there must be a few out there who find Ernie Casciato's hamminess a bit much (I'm as big a sucker for it as most, though). Something that struck me: the actor who plays Ralph Rackstraw looks a bit like George W., and there's a member of the sailor's chorus who looks a lot like a young John Lithgow, which resemblances are initially pleasing but become a distraction. For good measure, the Josephine bears a passing resemblance to Linda Ronstadt. . . .-- Quixel